The Barefoot Bandits

Barefoot Bandits hits a lot of the right notes for me. It's a little talky at times admittedly and very very colloquial, but the humour, quality of the characters, stories, and animation might prove palatable to an audience outside New Zealand. I hope so.

It's brave and surprising to see a series that irreverently showcases New Zealand provinciality, it's very Scooby Doo, but undeniably Kiwi.

What other series has the young upstart investigator say to the menacing robot:

"What are you looking at? you got an eye problem?"

I've only seen the first season and about 6 or 8 episodes, but thus far it's a very good effort.

Reading the credits it doesn't appear to have offshored it's animation work, which is encouraging. I enjoyed the first series of bro'Town, but lost interest by the second series, and they opted to employ foreign animation farms for a lot of the work. The animation is clunky in a South Park/Samurai Jack way, but facial and other character animation is still strong.

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